Haiku Books Published by Brooks BooksThis is a listing of haiku books published by Brooks Books. For our complete listing including chapbooks, mini-chapbooks, magazines, poemcards, hypertexts, and bibliographies, see our catalog. |
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Alexis Rotella. Milkweed: Selected Haiku & Senryu of Alexis Rotella ISBN 978-1929820-30-5 • 2024 Brooks Books is pleased to publish Milkweed: Selected Haiku & Senryu of Alexis Rotella in our series of clothbound editions by American exemplars of this literary art. As a selected collection, this book includes many of the very best haiku and senryu written over the lifetime of the author. Our selection process began by reviewing select haiku from the author and reviewing the works included in Charles Trumbull’s well-known haiku database. A big THANK YOU to Charlie for assisting with his database records. We then also considered work that has received significant recognition through awards and anthology publication. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
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Bill Pauly. Walking Uneven Ground: Selected Haiku of Bill Pauly ISBN 978-1-929820-22-4 • 2021 publication date: December 18, 2021 Brooks Books is pleased to publish Walking Uneven Ground: Selected Haiku of Bill Pauly in our series of clothbound editions. As a selected haiku collection, it includes the very best haiku by an author who has spent a significant portion of his or her life’s work in this genre. Shirley and I want to say what an honor it has been to know Bill Pauly and to celebrate a life well lived as a haiku poet. Bill signed my copy of Wind the Clock by Bittersweet with this inscription: “Wishing you many sustaining moments along your Haiku Way. Excelsior!” To Bill we are so grateful to say thank you for inviting us along your haiku walk. Excelsior indeed! For more information, see the web page flyer. |
John Stevenson. My Red: The Selected Haiku ISBN 978-1-929820-21-4 • 2021 publication date: July 7, 2021 Brooks Books is pleased to publish My Red: The Selected Haiku of John Stevenson in our series of clothbound editions of selected haiku. As a selected haiku collection, it includes the very best haiku by an author who has spent a significant portion of his or her life’s work in this genre. Our selection process began with the author who reviewed all 2,183 haiku published by Summer of 2020. John made the initial selection of 774 favorite haiku for review by our team of readers. Special thanks are due to the several readers who have reviewed, evaluated and assisted the editors with the selection of the haiku to be included in this book. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
Randy Brooks. The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach ISBN 978-1-929820-17-7 • 2019 publication date: August 15, 2019 Brooks Books is pleased to celebrate the publication of new book, The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku: A Reader Response Approach. This book features the creative work of Millikin students from my Global Haiku Traditions course—both original haiku and reading responses to haiku. In a way, it is an anthology that shares the creative engagement of my students in every haiku class I have taught. Over the last 20 years I have been gathering and saving some of the best haiku and reading responses for this collection. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
Randy Brooks. Walking the Fence: The Selected Tanka of Randy Brooks ISBN 978-1-929820-18-4 • 2019 publication date: June 18, 2019 Brooks Books is pleased to celebrate the publication of new boook, Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka of Randy Brooks featuring the best of my published tanka. I started writing tanka under the mentorship of Dr. Sanford Goldstein in 1977 and have continued until the present. I hope my tanka open up your own memories and a few smiles as you join me on my tanka journey, walking the fence. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
Raymond Roseliep ISBN 978-1-929820-15-3 • 2018 Brooks Books is pleased to announce the publication of the The Collected Haiku of Raymond Roseliep, edited by Randy and Shirley Brooks. This collector’s edition of all known published haiku by Raymond Roseliep follows extensive research and includes citations of first and subsequent publication of each haiku. This book is a tribute to the life and haiku of this prolific and admired poet, and its compilation has been a labor of love by the editors, with help from many others. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
Raymond Roseliep ISBN 1-929820-14-6 • hand-sewn • 2017 Randy and Shirley Brooks, Editors, have selected 100 favorite haiku for this commemorative collection. Many of these haiku by Raymond Roseliep have appeared in multiple journals and poetry anthologies. This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies, hand-sewn with pearlized cream paper and pearlized silver cover. It was released on August 11, 2017 at the 100th Birth Anniversary of Rev. Raymond Roseliep at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
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Tazuo Yamaguchi ISBN 978-1-929820-10-8 Brooks Books is pleased to announce the publication of HAIKU: The Art of the Short Poem, a film by Tazuo Yamaguchi. The haiku cited or read in the film are published in this book/DVD combo as a haiku anthology featuring contemporary English-language haiku writers. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
Caroline Gourlay ISBN 1-929820-09-7• perfectbound • Dec 2005 With each successive reading of Lull Before Dark, we hope the reader becomes more engrossed with Caroline Gourlay’s haiku. Full of earthly creatures, heartfelt moments, light, dark, and everything in between, this collection not only brings us closer to the Welsh countryside—which often serves as her inspiration—but also brings us closer to the root of humanity, to the simple moments that give our lives meaning. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
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Peggy Lyles A clothbound edition of selected haiku by Peggy Lyles, one of the leading American haiku authors and co-editor of Heron's Nest. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
George Swede; Randy Brooks, editor This clothbound edition collects the best haiku by George Swede, written and published over the last thirty years. Swede is very well known for his humor and psychological insights, writing haiku from all aspects of his life. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
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Wally Swist © 2005. perfectbound, 128 pages (5.5" X 8.5"), ISBN 1-929820-07-0 $16.00 US Wally Swist has been an active contributor to the American haiku community since the 1970s, publishing haiku in numerous haiku magazines and serving as book review editor for Modern Haiku magazine from 1989 until 1997. Several chapbooks of his haiku have been published over the last fifteen years, and he has four books of lyric or narrative poetry in print. His haiku have been included in several major haiku anthologies and published in many magazines, so it is with great pleasure that Brooks Books publishes a gathering of Wally Swist’s best haiku into this collection, The Silence Between Us. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
O. Mabson Southard Deep Shade Flickering Sunlight Selected Haiku of O Mabson Southard © 2004. perfectbound, 128 pages (5.5" X 8.5"), ISBN 1-929820-05-4 $16.00 US This collection includes the very best work by one of the leading pioneers exploring the art of haiku in English in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Southard spent a significant portion of his life’s literary work developing his approach to the genre. O Mabson Southard has continued to receive critical acclaim and the recognition he deserves in anthologies of haiku, but most of his work is out of print or in magazines which are difficult to find. With this collection, his work can now be more fully considered by haiku scholars and enjoyed by contemporary haiku readers. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
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Akito Arima; Lee Gurga & Emiko Miyashita, translators. Einstein's Century: Akito Arima's Haiku © 2001. Perfect bound, (5.5" X 8.5") 128 pages. ISBN 1-929820-01-1 out of print "Dr Akito Arima combines a certain traditional elegance, and the seasoned perspective of a world traveled professor and scientist. He maintains the depth and lightness of true haiku, yet fluently covers places and spaces, and as a family person at that. I warmly welcome this fine collection into the world of American poetry."
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Masajo Suzuki; Lee Gurga & Emiko Miyashita, translators. Love Haiku: Masajo Suzuki's Lifetime of Love © Sept., 2000. Perfect bound, (5.5" X 8.5") 112 pages. ISBN 1-929820-00-3 out of print Masajo Suzuki started writing haiku in 1936 and has steadily been writing love haiku ever since. This collection gathers 150 of her best haiku, complete with Japanese kanji, romaji and English versions and some annotations and notes as needed. The translators are both leading haiku poets in their own langauges, which makes this collection of translations especially high quality. For more information, see the web page flyer. |
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Paul O. Williams. Outside Robins Sing: Selected Haiku © July 1999. Handsewn accordian fold, (4.5" X 5.5") 56 pages. ISBN 0-913719-98-6 $30.00 Paul O. Williams, President of the Haiku Society of America, offers the best of his haiku from over thirty years of writing. Handsewn in an accordian fold, this book clusters the haiku into seven reading arenas. Graphic design and photographs by Millikin University students, Julie Lycan and Jeremy Coulter.
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Lee Gurga; Randy Brooks, editor. Fresh Scent: Selected Haiku of Lee Gurga © June 1998. Clothbound, (5.5" X 8.5") 128 pages. ISBN 0-913719-86-2 out of print First place, Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America for the best haiku book publsihed in 1998. Lee Gurga has achieved wide-spread recognition for his contributions to haiku in English. We are pleased to share 135 of his best haiku in this collection.
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